Friday, 26 October 2007

Okay, you're saving your points for your arena points, wondering on which of those joys you will spend them.

Well the first nice change on S3 in the addition of hit rating, it will be easier to cap the 5% chance withouth sacrifying some gems. To remind yourselve, your chance to miss an equal level charcater is 5%, that means you need 5*15.8= 79 Hit rating at least when you're PvPing. As a haman, you could take those from talents but, hey, why use talents when you have those free stats on your stuff. My calculation is based for shaman handling 2H weapons. For those who stick on dual-wielding for PvP, you have 5% miss base + 19% miss penality.

Moreover, you should wondering yourselve about what the hell is Armor Penetration. Well Armor penetration is for PA what Resilience is for Stamina : An additional way to improve your DPS. I like examples other formulas, students (well, I was a teacher earlier in my life) tends to understand much more quickly if you have something concrete for them.So, let's take the example of an Arena match versus a 2345 team. You would doom their healer first, no ? Let's say it is a priest you have just purged, so no Inner Fire now. Let's say the guy have 3k armor and blessed resilience proc.So, his armor mitigation with 3k is 3000/(3000+10557.5)=22.13% (link for the math explanation).

Let's say you have a total of 400 armor penetration on your stuff. Then this priest mitigation would be 2600/(2600+10557.5)=19.76% which means a 3.04% increase of damage on this priest, even if he is resilience-capped. It's like a free Sunder Armor on your stuff.

So I see you complaining : "Wtf morons, 3% is shit". Hey, people we are talking about team PvPing isn't it ? Ming have done some calculation about it :

Season 3 is expected to have 900 in armor penetration, off a quick premed CSinto improved expose armor, I am now ignoring 4535 armor from a warrior, that isa 26.6% DPS increase on a 11000 armor target, throw in an executioner enchantproccing it would be a 33.2% DPS increase. Against softer targets it will beeven more."

Okay, I don't see how you could have 900 armor penetration currently as a rogue, but it's the idea. Teaming with a Rogue in 2vs2 and 3vs3. Armor penetration comes to be the solution when any single toon met in an arena have 350+ Resilience. For me, this means, more AP, less crit if I go this way. In order to do your own comparison, I've found this little spreadsheet by googling.

So now, here is comparison of S1, S2 and S3 gear for Enhancement Shamans, the Earthshaker one :

Linked Helm :

Armor

Strength

Stamina

Critical strike

Resilience

Hit

Armor pen.

Gems(4 Res)

Cost 2.3

Season 1

703

34

51

26

30

-

-

Red, Meta,

14500 Honor

Season 2

775

37

60

28

33

-

-

Red, Meta,

1630

Season 3

830

34

67

33

33

12

84

Red, Meta,

1875

Linked Spaulders :

Armor

Strength

Stamina

Critical strike

Resilience

Hit

Armor pen.

Gems(3 Res)

Cost 2.3

Season 1

649

19

42

22

21

-

-

Red, Yellow

10500 Honor

Season 2

715

22

48

24

21

-

-

Red, Yellow

1304

Season 3

766

25

52

27

21

-

-

Red, Yellow

1500

Linked Armor :

Armor

Strength

Stamina

Critical strike

Resilience

Hit

Armor pen.

Gems(4 CC)

Cost 2.3

Season 1

866

29

51

28

26

-

-

2* Red, Yellow

14500 Honor

Season 2

954

31

57

30

27

-

-

2* Red, Yellow

1630

Season 3

1022

27

64

30

31

12

84

2* Red, Yellow

1875

Linked Leggings :

Armor

Strength

Stamina

Critical strike

Resilience

Hit

Armor pen.

Intel

Cost 2.3

Season 1

758

30

54

36

28

-

-

25

14500 Honor

Season 2

835

34

60

40

31

-

-

29

1630

Season 3

894

38

67

36

31

12

84

33

1875

Linked Gauntlets :

Armor

Strength

Stamina

Critical strike

Resilience

Hit

Armor pen.

Bonus

Cost 2.3

Season 1

541

25

40

27

21

-

-

+8% LS

9000 Honor

Season 2

596

29

45

29

22

-

-

+8% LS

978

Season 3

639

33

51

32

22

-

-

+5 yds Shocks

1125

As you know (as you're a fan of my blog, don't you ?), I'll go first on the Linked Leggings, which are an huge upgrade for me. Then I decided to go in this order on the S3 Armor, S3 Helm, S3 gloves and at final S3 Spaulders.

With my honors points, I'll go first for the Vindicator's Band of Triumph and the PvP Belt. Wondering if I will use some points on The Arena Season 1 spaulder now, which is the best value for price item. Moreover, I won't have a 2k rating anytime soon.

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